The Fiery Furnaces

Eleanor Friedberger Comes Into Her Own

Last September, Eleanor Friedberger flew out to Los Angeles with two goals in mind. First, she met with producer Eric Broucek to discuss the songs they had recently finished recording for her sophomore effort, Personal Record, a 12-song collection that showcases her work as a burgeoning indie-rock ... More >>

White Mystery

Pazz & Jop 2011: Seth Colter Walls On Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, And Voting From The Fringe

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. We'll start off the series with Seth Colter Walls of New York City, who has a constant itch to do the deep dive and find the single-voter albums out there. Find his bal ... More >>

Q&A: Lexie "Mountain" Macchi On The Triwave Picogenerator, Baltimore, And Jersey Shore

Baltimore's Lexie Macchi isn't so much a relentlessly inquisitive sound-shifter as she is a Renaissance Everywoman dynamo. There is, seemingly, nothing she can't do or hasn't done. The Crazy Dreams Band, which she fronted, exploded Gang Gang Dance's polygenre supernovae into something capable of set ... More >>

Q&A: Frank Hoier And Moselle Spiller Of Boom Chick On Touring, Honoring The Blues, And Nirvana

​Clocking in at a scrappy 20 minutes, Show Pony—the 2010 self-released debut LP from Brooklyn's Boom Chick—brings the hangdog harangue ruckus, a snarling, hair-raising blur of raw rock primitivism and full-tilt blues grooves. The songs, from the ephedrine-juiced surf-snarl of "Nail ... More >>

Eleanor Friedberger

Live: Mr. Dream And Eleanor Friedberger Kick Off The 4Knots Festivities

Willie DavisEleanor Friedberger. ​ 4Knots Music Festival: Mr. Dream, Eleanor Friedberger Pier 17, South Street Seaport Saturday, July 16 Better than: Showing up late. I have this problem—it's well known among my friends—where I arrive at things (shows, parties, etc.) on time. Usu ... More >>

Eleanor Friedberger As Solo Artist

Last Summer gets her back to being excited about music

Hot Music for Long Nights

Celebrating the summer with live, sweaty shows

This Week in the Voice: 4Knots Music Festival Preview

​This week in the Voice: It's the preview issue for our 4Knots Music Festival, set to take place July 16 at South Street Seaport! Maura Johnston previews the lineup, which includes the Black Angels, Titus Andronicus, Oberhofer, Eleanor Friedberger, Mr. Dream, and Davila 666. She also muses on ... More >>

Some Notes On Eleanor Friedberger, Ida, And Rebecca Gates, Who Are Playing Tomorrow Night's Excellent Show At Club Europa

by David Raposa ​ Saturday's Northside Festival show at Europa will showcase four well-traveled acts from far-flung corners of the indie-rock diaspora: Eleanor Friedberger, Ida, Rebecca Gates, and Pete Nolan. The bill's highest-profile member is also the only one with an album scheduled to co ... More >>

FIRE WOMAN

Eleanor Friedberger goes solo

Live: Fiery Furnaces Play It Relatively Straight At Rockwood Music Hall

​The Fiery Furnaces Rockwood Music Hall Wednesday, May 4 Better than: Steve & Eydie redux. All the blind alleys the Fiery Furnaces' songs take tend to foreshorten the idea of the group ever putting on a straightforward show. That's before we even get into Matt and Eleanor Friedberger's hab ... More >>

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Download "Shirley," From Matthew Friedberger's New Solos Project, Which Matthew Is Willing To Discuss In Great Detail

​Whatever you think of the music Matthew Friedberger makes, both solo and as one-half of sibling-prog act the Fiery Furnaces, you have to admit that he's really, really good at talking about making it -- he is erudite and sarcastic and yet completely sincere in a genuinely fascinating way. We ... More >>

Photos: Jelly NYC Pool Party Kick-Off 2010

all photos Sam HorineChuck Schumer with the JellyNYC gang, Sarah Hooper and Alexander Kane. Full gallery from Sunday's first Pool Party here. The line-up announcement for this season's slew of Jelly NYC Pool Parties wasn't quite as mercilessly drawn out as Big Boi's solo record, but it certainly fe ... More >>

The Fiery Furnaces

2010 Northside Festival Lineup Announced!

​And it looks like our buddies at L Magazine have outdone themselves: Titus Andronicus, Liars, Fucked Up, High Places, Les Savy Fav, Polvo, Twin Sister, and Wavves are just a handful of the hundreds of bands they've got lined up to play this thing. Northside happens June 24-27 in a variety of ... More >>

Live: Spoon Feign Maturity At Radio City Music Hall

Spoon Radio City Music Hall Friday, March 26 "This place is all right," declares Britt Daniel, understating as always. "I think we are the band that played the most times at Brownies and then played Radio City Music Hall." Calling out their long-shuttered-East-Village-rock-club roots is a slightl ... More >>

Vena Cava Invent Cabin Chic; the Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger and Au Revoir Simone's Heather D'Angelo Are Fans

photo by David WentworthSometimes we wonder if it's a good idea for designers to explain their inspiration on the show program. Case in point: At Vena Cava, the stylish line by Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai, the program said that the Fall 2010 collection was for "the Vena Cava woman to wear in her ca ... More >>

On NYCTaper and the Proud, Obsessive Lineage of Local Audio Hoarders

Fashion Week in Review: St. Vincent at Rachel Comey, Fiery Furnaces at Vena Cava, a Grizzly Bear at Both

​ How do you know if you're at a super hip Brooklyn fashion designer's show? Just look for the super hip Brooklyn band playing the catwalk. Rachel Comey scored the lovely sounds of St. Vincent while Lisa Mayock and Sophie Buhai of Vena Cava recruited the Fiery Furnaces to set the moods at the ... More >>

In a Somewhat Predictable Unpredictable Turn of Events, the Fiery Furnaces Are Covering Their Own Album, Twice

​It's pretty funny that the Fiery Furnaces' new I'm Going Away has been generally critically regarded as their simplest, most direct, least goofy-gimmick-addled release in years, and lo and behold, they're now threatening to release two new versions of it, one covered entirely by Matt, one cov ... More >>

Week in Review: Do Not Go to Siren Fest Hungover!

Look, it's a member of Das Racist eating food. Photo by Sam Horine.  In the week we spent the early hours of recovering from Siren Festival--highlights of which were many and varied and included a photo of Das Racist daring to eat a type of food the duo doesn't rap about--we were officially and ... More >>

Live: The Lowbrow Reader Presents Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces at Housing Works

Photo of the Fiery Furnaces via jcn's photostream Peter Stampfel, Larkin Grimm, and the Fiery Furnaces Housing Works Wednesday, July 22 "This one's about traveling to a distant galaxy to bring back spirit orgasms for women on earth who've never had one," Larkin Grimm said last night to a decent c ... More >>

Live: Paul McCartney Lets It Be (and/or Lives and Lets Die) at Not-Shea-Stadium

No Billie Joel cameo this time, which is fine, fine, fine Paul McCartney Citi Field Tuesday, July 21 I'd like to publicly thank the usher in section 314 for physically blocking my path to the bathroom during the opening strains of "Live and Let Die" because he didn't want me to miss the firewor ... More >>

A Quick Word from the Fiery Furnaces, Regarding Our Recent Story About Their Trip to Brooklyn Bowl

Tina ChouTheir happiness in this photo is absolutely sincereSo recently, honorable Voice correspondent Cristina Black took everyone's favorite nigh-inscrutable brother-sister duo, the Fiery Furnaces, on a private tour of Brooklyn Bowl, everyone's favorite new high-end Williamsburg bowling alley, for ... More >>

The Fiery Furnaces Go Bowling

A trip to the swanky new Brooklyn Bowl with everyone's favorite art-rock brother-sister act

This Week in the Voice

Heed the Siren! Here comes the 9th Annual Siren Music Festival and related content: Gleefully hostile, says Rob Harvilla of Future of the Left. On new album: acoustic guitar. Problem? "It's irrelevant what old fans or old bands think," says Falco. "If anything, it makes it more exciting to push i ... More >>

Where Rik Cordero and Fiery Furnaces Collide

Whimsical Brooklyn brother-sister act Fiery Furnaces released the distinctly sitcom-y "The End Is Near" in June, as a prelude to their eighth album, I'm Going Away, due out in a couple of Tuesdays. The song contains the couplet "Woe is me/Etc.: Lonely. See...," something we know for a fact (down t ... More >>

I Knew M.I.A. Was Pregnant Before You

Notes on Brooklyn Recording Studio the Rare Book Room

Inside Nicolas Vernhes's sanctuary, home to avant-rock

This Week's Voice: Waterboarding, African Music Blogs, and More

The Fiery Furnaces Get Inscrutable

Bonnaroo Day 2: Jose Gonzalez, Fiery Furnaces, Swell Season, Raconteurs, Rilo Kiley, M.I.A., Metallica

Possibly 4th Street: Matthew Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces

Live: Nellie McKay at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

The Collage King of Queens

A walking tour and songwriting lesson with Fiery Furnaces guru Matthew Friedberger

Acerbic Ephemera From a Wry Orchestral Phenom

More Fiery Furnace–Derived, Potentially Exhausting Weirdness

Dream Theater

Prog, pop, and twee burn gleefully in the Fiery Furnaces

Dog Collars to Doughnuts

Eleanor puts her granny boots on, helps pave the highway

2004

The Hordes of Flatbush

A great slew of genre-bending goulash-rockers gracefully emerge from Brooklyn's hipster dust

Music

Winning Teddy Bears at the Ringtoss, and Capturing the Friedbergers

Evolution of Man

Brooklyn sibling duo proves that shy adolescence is ageless

Do It to Each Other Like a Sister and a Brother, or Maybe Not

CMJ Musicfest 2003